Abstract:
At midnight, Thursday 26 March 2020, South
Africa (SA) was declared a state of disaster
and entered a nationwide lockdown to curb the
rapid spread of COVID‑19. South Africans were
instructed to stay home and all but essential
services closed down. Educators immediately
started utilising technologies to transform a
massive amount of academic content onto a
virtual platform. An acceptable alternative had to
be offered to students to save the academic year.
